Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance FerraraPeter Humfrey, Dosso Dossi, Mauro Lucco, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), J. Paul Getty Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998 - 312 pagine Imagination, sensual delight, a sharp wit - these qualities were enormously prized in sixteenth-century Ferrara, where one of the most cultured and powerful courts of the High Renaissance held sway, Dosso Dossi was the idiosyncratic, brilliant painter most responsible for turning those values into a glorious artistic reality. Dosso's rich color schemes are akin to those of his fellow North Italian Titian; he learned something about innovative composition from Raphael and about the force of the body from Michelangelo. But his paintings have a very individual appeal. In leafy natural surroundings containing an array of animals and heavenly bodies, events unfold that are often enigmatic, enacted by characters whose interrelationships elude definition. For this exhibition, almost all the surviving paintings have been brought together; in the catalogue entries each one receives a fresh and comprehensive scholarly discussion. The catalogue also contains essays that describe Dosso's artistic career and the highly charged world of the court at Ferrara and that probe the visual poetry and subtle wit of his work. The illuminating results of an extensive campaign of technical examination, undertaken in connection with the exhibition, are discussed and illustrated in additional essays and in observations that accompany the catalogue entries throughout. |
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A.Venturi Allegory Allegory with Pan altarpiece Ariosto artist attributed to Dosso Bacchanal background Ballarin in Paris Battista Dossi Berenson Camerino Cardinal centimeters century cloak collection color composition Coperta Costabili polyptych court d'Este dark decoration detail documents Dosso Dossi ducal Duke Alfonso early edge Ercole Ferrara Ferrarese figure foreground frescoes Galleria Borghese Galleria Estense Garofalo Getty Gibbons Giorgione Giorgione's Girolamo Girolamo da Carpi Giulio Romano Hercules Holy Family Humfrey imprimatura inventory Isabella d'Este landscape layer lead white London Longhi Madonna Mantua Melissa Mendelsohn 1914 Mezzetti 1965a Modena Museum National Gallery nude Oil on canvas Oil on panel original painter Palazzo palmi pentimenti picture pigment Pinacoteca polyptych portrait probably Provenance Puppi Raphael Rome Saint George Saint Jerome Saint Michael Saint Sebastian Scipione Borghese style stylistic substrate suggested TECHNICAL OBSERVATIONS tion Titian trees Vasari Venetian Venice Venus Villa Virgin and Child woman x-radiograph